From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 15:30: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.velosystems.net (wsip68-15-85-238.oc.oc.cox.net [68.15.85.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85A637B41B for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:30:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from win2kads (win2kads [192.168.1.5]) by mail.velosystems.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 5727E12737; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:29:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <013e01c1bfe6$b7f0a7f0$0501a8c0@win2kads> From: "Steve Wingate" To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" , "FBSDQ" References: Subject: Re: FBSD/DHCP talking to lan winbox Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:30:18 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a FBSD4.4 gateway/firewall with lan winboxs behind it. > The winboxs have hard coded info in the networking windows IP address > and DNS ip address. Everything has been working just fine. > I wanted to learn about DHCPD server so I installed it from > the ports. After I got it installed and configurated I started > it up ok. Then I went to one of the lan winboxs and changed the > networking settings to "Obtain ip address automatically" leaving > the DNS ip address in. When the winbox rebooted I saw the new ip > address in the DHCP log. I can ping the winbox from the FBSD box > and ping FBSD from the winbox. But any thing orginating from the winbox > that needs DNS fails. > > Will FBSD/DHCP work with ms/windows box on the lan > > Is there someplace else in windows I have to tell it about dhcp? > You said you're leaving the manually entered DNS servers on the Windows boxes but you have them entered in the dhcpd configuration anyway? Why? Did you try to let the Windows boxes get their dns info from dhcpd also? Do the Windows boxes still show DNS info in ipconfig /all? Does nslookup bring up a DNS server? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message